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Speaker 1: with special guest Ben Faller for Icy Fresh Jewels. Although

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Speaker 1: and Welcome to Cannabis Talk one on one. My name

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Speaker 1: we've got an amazing show for you guys today. We've

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Speaker 1: got Mr Ben the Baller Ben Foller on the fall.

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Speaker 1: Mr Ben Yang also known as Ben Baller. He's a musician, actor, jeweler,

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Speaker 1: I mean worked records done dall Connie. He played basketball

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Speaker 1: and football, resident and Cal Bears doing it from the

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Speaker 1: Beta l A tougher than the toughest. He's the founder

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Speaker 1: of Icy Fresh Jewelers and he creates extravagant diamond and

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Speaker 1: crusted jewelry and beautiful stuff. He's done crazy stuff with

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Speaker 1: all kinds of some lebrities from Kanye West straight to

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Speaker 1: I guess making that belt buggle from Michael Jackson. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk to him and get into it all with you.

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Speaker 1: But welcome to the show, senior, Ben Baller. How are you, brother?

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Speaker 1: What's up? Guys? Man, I'm good, I'm blessed. It's just

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Speaker 1: funny to say all these things about you like that,

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Speaker 1: and you know, to think about the records and having

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Speaker 1: a great conversation with you yesterday. But you know, take

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Speaker 1: me back early, you know Ben Yang days growing up

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles as a young you know cat from

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Speaker 1: l a Going, how am I getting into this game?

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Speaker 1: What led you to? What was first? Was that? You know,

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Speaker 1: as I know we talked, you did you did the record,

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Speaker 1: and you was rapping, you did this and that. But

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Speaker 1: what led you to all this major success? Walk us

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Speaker 1: down that path? You know what, man? I just think

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Speaker 1: I was a dreamer and I think I had you know,

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Speaker 1: I just dreamed a lot and I was. I was

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Speaker 1: born and actually a really small part of like an

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Speaker 1: immigrant family, and my mom and dad worked very hard.

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Speaker 1: My dad worked very hard for an honorable job but

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Speaker 1: didn't make very much money. My mom worked really really

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Speaker 1: I guess I kind of came in when we were

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Speaker 1: doing all right, like lower middle class my brother and

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Speaker 1: And this is like you know, in the sixties and stuff,

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Speaker 1: You know, I just always read I always rooted for

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Speaker 1: larceny man cerritos? Is? I? Uh? And I could have

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Speaker 1: So so I just noticed that, like, how did jewelry

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Speaker 1: uh my uncle was a jeweler. I just love jewelry

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Speaker 1: I just shot. I was a cameo on a Little

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Speaker 1: John video hits me up as a BRONI the Asian

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Speaker 1: goes not. He goes, are you hungry, I'll cook you something.

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00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,439
Speaker 1: I was like, no, man, I'm gonna get the funk out.

423
00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:19,760
Speaker 1: I actually need to the door. I need to get

424
00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:24,240
Speaker 1: out of here. He just the door. He bounce you

425
00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:25,960
Speaker 1: just he just bounced on me, just took off and

426
00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:29,480
Speaker 1: I have made a few things like broaches and things

427
00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,879
Speaker 1: like that in the next thing, you know, um, you

428
00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:33,879
Speaker 1: know he passed away. I made all his jewel up

429
00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:35,359
Speaker 1: to until he died up pretty much. I mean it

430
00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,840
Speaker 1: was a trip. Wow. Wow, we're talking to Ben Bahler

431
00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,520
Speaker 1: and that's great, man. I see fresh jewelers. Let's take

432
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Speaker 1: a break and come right back with you. Welcome back

433
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Speaker 1: to Cannabis Talk one on one. Ben Boler is with us.

434
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Speaker 1: If you haven't been listening, you know, talking about Michael

435
00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:02,840
Speaker 1: Jackson just disappearing on you. I mean what you know

436
00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:07,280
Speaker 1: what and however, did he ever ultimately just talk straight

437
00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:11,920
Speaker 1: to you. Yeah, when they're at the house. But honestly,

438
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,120
Speaker 1: like it was like, um, you know, you gotta remember, man,

439
00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,480
Speaker 1: like this is a dude who did nothing but cuss.

440
00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:22,159
Speaker 1: I cussed a lot, a lot, like he told that

441
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:28,600
Speaker 1: motherfucker what wh what are you talking about? And it

442
00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:30,400
Speaker 1: was a trip because you would never think that Michael

443
00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,280
Speaker 1: Jackson cuss a lot. I mean, people who know them

444
00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:35,439
Speaker 1: obviously know that he you know, he had a kind

445
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,280
Speaker 1: of a temper, different side, but it was just it

446
00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,560
Speaker 1: was funk man. You know, you just really started realizing, like, wow,

447
00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,320
Speaker 1: TV is different, you know, Hollywood, and this is me

448
00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,720
Speaker 1: being in Hollywood already for you know, fucking fifteen years

449
00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,400
Speaker 1: almost or something. It's just like, god, damn, So how

450
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:55,000
Speaker 1: did you transition into cannabis? Um? So? The first time

451
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,240
Speaker 1: I got high was probably what six or something eight?

452
00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,520
Speaker 1: They d five baby eighty five. I think eighty four.

453
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 1: Eighty five I got might have been eighty four. Actually,

454
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:08,639
Speaker 1: I'm sorry eighty four. Some due to school had had weed.

455
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,480
Speaker 1: He was an eighth grade. I was sixth grader. And

456
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,119
Speaker 1: my boys like we're gonna get you. Watch all the

457
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,480
Speaker 1: videos back there. You're watching the TV, like, oh just

458
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,560
Speaker 1: say no, And all that ship is going on of

459
00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:23,480
Speaker 1: all fucking schools, of all places. You wanna talk about

460
00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 1: some Forrest Gump ship, like weirdo random ship of all places.

461
00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:33,240
Speaker 1: My school was a school where Darren was founded dances.

462
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,119
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like my fucking school. The

463
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,200
Speaker 1: guy I'll never forget. The guy's name was Officer Gay.

464
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 1: How do you forget that name? And I'm like, ship, man,

465
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,119
Speaker 1: I'm a bad dude. But I don't know, man, you

466
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 1: don't know about I don't want to stop. At the

467
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 1: same time, too, I played sports. I don't want to

468
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 1: get short. I don't want to be short. I'm Asian.

469
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:50,840
Speaker 1: I'm word against the rope, you know what I'm saying,

470
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,560
Speaker 1: Like I think I might have been six two or

471
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 1: something if if I didn't you know, smoke so much.

472
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,520
Speaker 1: But we're getting high, and it just was like it

473
00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:01,720
Speaker 1: was a weird thing because you know, I can't really

474
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 1: go super deep into um specifics of strains and things,

475
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,600
Speaker 1: but I can't think of their being that many strains

476
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,159
Speaker 1: around them, you know what I mean? All I know

477
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,160
Speaker 1: was that it was Indica. Back then. I didn't even

478
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 1: know so T Biggs. I had no idea, but I

479
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 1: might smoke, and I was like, whoa, just uh my

480
00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:28,760
Speaker 1: godfather was one of the O G s normal you

481
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 1: know Emmy or N O R M L and uh

482
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,880
Speaker 1: my godfather directed Up and Smoke and he also, um,

483
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: he produced every cheap chong I'll never so I know

484
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 1: he used to smoke and ship. And then it's weird

485
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,200
Speaker 1: because he had took many kids and he didn't smoke

486
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 1: his kids my age, so it's kind of a weird thing.

487
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,160
Speaker 1: And um, I just didn't smoke again until I got

488
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 1: to school. So I go to the Bay and you know,

489
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,239
Speaker 1: Grateful Dead is going on, all that is going on

490
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:55,919
Speaker 1: in the hate Street. I'm like, whoa should I do?

491
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 1: Ask it for the first time, all my craziest knowledge,

492
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 1: and you know, I've done ask the sugar cubes. Also

493
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 1: the ship, I'm doing mushrooms. I'm like, damn do the

494
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,360
Speaker 1: bay is different. I'm like, this ship is dope out here,

495
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,399
Speaker 1: like you know, spoken all through high school and everything,

496
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,400
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, at that point, I was like,

497
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,360
Speaker 1: obviously it's a good hustle, so we'd not a lot,

498
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:16,879
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm sell a little bit here and there,

499
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,679
Speaker 1: make money. It's always dabbled with it. It wasn't until

500
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 1: like around to where I started moving like five hundred,

501
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 1: six hundred pounds a week, you know, um, seven five

502
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 1: hundred pounds of a week A week is a lot

503
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,639
Speaker 1: of week, and we're moving that, we're taking elves. We

504
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 1: were taking it l here and there, here and there,

505
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: And then in two thousand one, everyone in my crew

506
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 1: got By two thousand and one, everyone's been was arrested

507
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: and sucked up and they just know the game, like, yo, man,

508
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,639
Speaker 1: you can arrest us what it is and we do

509
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 1: what we can. But at the same time, like we

510
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 1: can't make it hot. My cousin decided to start making

511
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: a movie about it, and we did. We made a

512
00:23:55,080 --> 00:24:01,119
Speaker 1: real movie like reality and Extra Ship. I made a

513
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 1: movie called Cake Feature Film. It took three years to

514
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: sell the fucking movie the lions Gate, but it ended

515
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: up coming out, so you can buy it like a

516
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 1: fucking Walmart's More for like three or four dollars. But um,

517
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 1: it was based upon that and I never thought about

518
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: it again because it was illegal and it was a nightmare.

519
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: Then I started seeing like medicinal shark comeback. And it

520
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:23,679
Speaker 1: wasn't until like around four years ago. I had some

521
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: guys who kind of like, you know, they had told

522
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: me they looked up to me. They admired what I

523
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 1: was doing for Asian Americans and nudity. They had never

524
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: seen Asians move like me whatever, and uh, I asked

525
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:34,920
Speaker 1: them what they were doing. They're like, oh, we know

526
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,159
Speaker 1: some dispensaries. And I was like, oh, okay, cool, you

527
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 1: know that's that's dope. And then, um, you know, like

528
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 1: at that time, you know, you can make a couple

529
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,919
Speaker 1: of million dollars off one dispensary, and uh, you know,

530
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,399
Speaker 1: I met guys who were big time, like you know

531
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 1: those guys like came my own four dispensaries and they're

532
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 1: like real big time, super big, you know, all but

533
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 1: Harley's and cars and everything. These guys are like forty dispensaries.

534
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 1: So I was like, holy sh it on a whole

535
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 1: different motherfucking level. They showed me this bait pen like amen, um,

536
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 1: you know, what do you think about this? And I

537
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,199
Speaker 1: was like, oh man, this is dope. You know, it's

538
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: actually fucking five years ago. And I was like like

539
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: right when it just started. And I was like, this

540
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 1: is dope. Let me put it on my page. And

541
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: I'll just put and put it on my Instagram page.

542
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 1: And they said they hired girls with two million followers.

543
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: Everything you could think of whatever is a lot of

544
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 1: followers back then, and they were hiring people to post

545
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: ship and the turnaround was really not that great. When

546
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:29,479
Speaker 1: I did it, the turnaround was overwhelming for them. So

547
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: I said, hey, man, we got an idea. Man, would

548
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: you want to do your own pen And I'm like, yeah,

549
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: fuck it. But if I do business, you know, I

550
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: can't do like some Let's do it like let's let's

551
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: let's let's let let's let's brand it, let let's do

552
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,359
Speaker 1: let's do a whole fucking thing around me. Let's do this.

553
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 1: And I don't know why that just deep dove into it.

554
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: And so we started VBS and we began to crush

555
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: it until something called the fucking BCC. Yeah, I r

556
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: s a fucking weed. Um, let me just the BCC.

557
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 1: But it was just like you know, like, uh, I've

558
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 1: seen how many times a new compliance has come around

559
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: in the years. I'm just like, what the mom bro

560
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: a black sticker? You're telling me the black sea sticker.

561
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: I have seventy five thou stickers, I mean two fifty stickers.

562
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,639
Speaker 1: I gotta get white stickers out to be at c A.

563
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: The fucking c A compliance sticker talking me, Please tell

564
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 1: me you're kidding, And I'm like, yo, It's like little

565
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,640
Speaker 1: things like that, you know, like, all right, you guys,

566
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 1: start doing your homework. You know, I grew up with

567
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: Cypress Hill Mr Cartoons, part of Soul Assassins. You know,

568
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 1: it's all families. Like I've been around cannabis all my life,

569
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: and you know, um, I just started learning the hardships

570
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,360
Speaker 1: and then just with the compliance and ship and fucking,

571
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,719
Speaker 1: and then pesticides came up and there's people like, oh,

572
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 1: you're selling, and then it's just like hold on, wait

573
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: a second, what the fuck is going on? I got

574
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 1: these sides talking ship hiding, you know, putting this up

575
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: here boom, and they're like, bandman, we got people who

576
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: leg in your pants. Oh yeah, there's a lot of

577
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 1: that happened to the best of them. That's what you're doing.

578
00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: It fucking kidding me. So counterfeits. That's a little rising

579
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,360
Speaker 1: that my pens are being bootleg and there's not really

580
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: much because it's it's pretty close. But then I'm like

581
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: looking at it, I'm like, all right, it's little off.

582
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: I'm a jeweler. I'm gonna look at detail. And yeah,

583
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: sure enough, you know they got bad you know, they

584
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 1: got bad oil, and my pants and you know, the

585
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: ship happened to brass snuckles and sucked them up, and

586
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: those are my boys, and it just I had to

587
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 1: just keep transitioning. So now it's at the point where

588
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,640
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a fucking it's a struggle with with

589
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 1: with with with bait pens, you know what I mean.

590
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: Plus on top of that, I'm using C cell technology,

591
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: which to me is one of the best, and people like, yo,

592
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 1: why you're on a phistoric ship, why don't you use

593
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: live resumes? Shut the funk up? Bro? Let me do

594
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: what then? I do? You know what I'm saying, Like

595
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 1: everyone that has all these things to say about something,

596
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: they're anything doing something out of the garage, they're doing

597
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: it on a very small scale, or they don't own

598
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 1: a company, don't understand what it is to sell a

599
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: million pens, you know. And um, you know, right when

600
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: the pandemic has started, we had two and fifty pens

601
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: stuck in customs from where China, and uh. I was like, bro,

602
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: there has to be someone who makes fucking C cell

603
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 1: technology in Americas. There isn't. So I was just like

604
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: Jesus fucking Christ. So that was stuck for a minute. Um,

605
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: I had a big partnership with med Men and then

606
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 1: that ship. Thank God, thank fucking God, Like I God

607
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 1: blessed something, and they are really good to me. And

608
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: I got paid. I made money with that. Yeah, a

609
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: lot of people didn't. Yeah, and I felt bad because

610
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 1: I talked to people, are like, a man, how big

611
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,239
Speaker 1: your your p o with them? Do whatever? I'm like, man, like,

612
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: why are you counting my pockets? I ask you, no question,

613
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: what you guys doing. And you know, we got paid.

614
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: We're thankful and we kept the pushing. So right now,

615
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: the good thing is the pens are in higher demand.

616
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 1: It's just harder to get because, you know, because because

617
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: of China. So I kind of, you know, finally went

618
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: to the string route and uh, I teamed up with

619
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: Cookies fam and my boy as a cultivation a big

620
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: farm skypack and you know, Sacramento, and um we're about

621
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: to launch the strain on March. On March eleventh, the

622
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: entire country got shut down. Oh fucking fantastic. You know,

623
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: this is amazing. So, I mean it's just been, uh,

624
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: it's been very interesting. And at the moment they were like,

625
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: why don't we just launch it without you here? And

626
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: I was like, Bro, I'm not like one of these weirdos. Bro,

627
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, I want to be there,

628
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: be involved, I want to be at the in stores.

629
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: I want to actually be proactive on this, and it's

630
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: just it's still a very very unusual situation. So, um,

631
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Speaker 1: that's just kind of on hold because my son and

632
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: my children's and my children and my my whole family's

633
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: you know, health is ten times more valuable than any

634
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: of the you know it will be the Cannibals will

635
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: be there tomorrow. All businesses. Well, you gotta take care

636
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Speaker 1: of fan band first, you know, Ben, Well, I remember when, um,

637
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, I used to hang

638
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: out with you at at the Rainbow Room with you know,

639
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: be real and you stop in once in a while.

640
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: We used to and remember Playboy Bud next door at

641
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Speaker 1: the Key Club, you know what I mean, and running

642
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: around and I and I and I've watched this this

643
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: industry evolves so much from your you know, your product lines,

644
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: to to the people the players that are all in

645
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: that game, to the underground things that we're happening then

646
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: to what's really happening now. And you're right, it's such

647
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: a big curve and all these new things are happening,

648
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: and it's so difficult to to you know, navigate through

649
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: it when you have laws changing, like the Little c

650
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: A and all this. So, you know, I admire that

651
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: fact that it's just like it's it's a grind. You know,

652
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: you've got it, You've got evolved. I mean when we

653
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: when we you know, try to create this show and

654
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I mean people told us that

655
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: we were gonna fail. You know, all this isn't gonna work.

656
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: You know, You're not gonna ever be played on radio.

657
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: And then three years, four years into it, we're signing

658
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: to the biggest you know, uh music conglomerates. You know.

659
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: But it's just you have to have that vision, and

660
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: you've always had that vision. And that's something that I

661
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: admire about you. Man. I've watched your success for for

662
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: many years, you know, and I just think it's fantastic

663
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: that you have uh made a staple and they have

664
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: influenced so many people, uh minorities, you know, to be stronger,

665
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: better and faster because you are, you know, that unicorn

666
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: in that space, you know what I mean, you always

667
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: have been, and it's it's beautiful, appreciate, thank you. I

668
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: want to get towards now that you know you've done everything,

669
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: you're doing all these things you make the thing with

670
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson, What is it now that go? You know

671
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: this is my passion and I know, of course you

672
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: know the pandemic, the health of your family and kids.

673
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that's first top of the list, making sure

674
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 1: that's a plus number one. But what is it now?

675
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: I mean, is cannabis the new Let me learn more

676
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: about our our What is it that men bent? Let

677
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: Ben Yang go from the young kid and east in

678
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Speaker 1: l A growing up to be Ben Baller, the icy

679
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: fresh jewelers. Now this now that where's your mindset out? Now?

680
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:51,719
Speaker 1: Because you've been so successful, where are you going? You know,

681
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: it's funny to say that, man like, there's very few

682
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: people in the world that even know my name is

683
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: Ben Yang. I think be Real is probably one of

684
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: the very few. And Kenji and all my soul assassin Um.

685
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: I don't think I've used that name as a joke

686
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: until maybe two years ago, so I know one even

687
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: I've never ever been addressed as that. I think even

688
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: my mail at my office, I think people kind of

689
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: bug out. When they see that name, they think it's

690
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: wrong and they'll send it back like, motherfucker, that's my room.

691
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: That name government name because it makes sense because I

692
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: don't care about anything anymore. I don't want to learn

693
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: too much about anything else. I'm really just over it.

694
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: I'm almost fifty nine. I'm just kind of like, I

695
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: just want to be a dad now, you know what

696
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: I mean. Because I started so late in life. My

697
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: wife is eleven years younger than me, so like, you know,

698
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: with my kids and everything, you know, I've made enough

699
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: money to kind of just chill. So you know, I

700
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: have businesses that are on cruise control, and um my

701
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: my dream is to delete all my social media, you know,

702
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: like I think, yes, um, yeah, man, you know, I'm

703
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: just I'm just I'm just over it. I want to

704
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: be ben Yang now, you know what I mean, And

705
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: I want to kind of. I mean, I'm I'm never

706
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: really gonna fit in I guess you know, I could

707
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: be in regular clothes or whatever. It just wouldn't it wouldn't.

708
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: It wouldn't matter. Um, I don't really wear jewelry anymore.

709
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: Um I still have, you know, obviously really nice cars

710
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: and other things, but I just don't really, It's just

711
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: I'm just at a different way. And I don't mean

712
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: that to sound like in some people would be like,

713
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: oh man, for your giving up. I was like, how

714
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: am I giving up? Motherfucker, I'm still living better than everybody.

715
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: You know. I'm just drive because you gotta remember someone.

716
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: I don't know, somebody big. I'm trying to think, like fuck,

717
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: I mean, even like Jeff Bezos. I honestly, truly this

718
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: say sounds outland is to somebody listening to this. I

719
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: don't know if he had the work ethic I did

720
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: at a certain point. It was just he had the

721
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: tools and the money and other things, and he's amazing

722
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: what he did as a visionary and everything, and where

723
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: he's at now, it's just I can't think of it.

724
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if you could work any hard like

725
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: I stressed my brain out so much. I had a

726
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: seizure a few weeks ago, you know, And it wasn't

727
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: from anything, to the fact that I just so overwhelmed,

728
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: and um, I've just worked so much that it's to

729
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: the point where I don't want to work anymore, do

730
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: you know, Because I've worked for so long. I had

731
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: a paper. Right when I was a kid, I was

732
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 1: always running around doing it. I worked at bird King,

733
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: I worked, I worked shitty places, fast food, you name it.

734
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: Like I'm cool, Like I'm good now. I don't want

735
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: to work nowhere, you know what I mean, I'll take

736
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: less here to do this. And I've I've learned how

737
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: to you know, to you know last this long. You know,

738
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,439
Speaker 1: people by the time they're thirty in the hip hop world,

739
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: you know, you're a dinosaur old, you know what I mean,

740
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,760
Speaker 1: forty mom, forget about it. You know, like the Playing

741
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: Jaye song came out just barely three years ago, you know,

742
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: and like that was the number one song in the world,

743
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: not even just a country. And like my glow up

744
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: every year I became more relevant and flourished, and I

745
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,439
Speaker 1: was like, yo, man, like I got two more years

746
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: and I'm done, right, you know. And now, if I'm

747
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: not mistake and you're on ESPN earlier, is it a

748
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: new shoe that you launched or what was cracking with that?

749
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: Nou so I have I have a baseball card deal

750
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: with Tops and Cartoon of artists. They they chose twenty

751
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: iconist artists across the country. I'm sorry across the world

752
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: and they got to twenty most prolific baseball player in history,

753
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: from uh Ted Williams to Mark McGuire to Derek Jeter

754
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 1: to Ken Griffy and um. What they did was they

755
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: had twenty artists recreate twenty players rookie cards and it

756
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: was supposed to just be a Instagram campaign, but it

757
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: ended up being a royalty thing. And I'm with the

758
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: major agency. I'm actually with Derek Jeter, same agent as

759
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 1: Derek Jeter, Tiger Woods. I'm with Excel Sports Management, you know.

760
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: And for a long time, everything I've done on myself,

761
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: every TV show, my reality series, my my my movies,

762
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: any kind of campaigns, everything was done through me. I had.

763
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: I had representation through W and ME and CIA before that,

764
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 1: but I never really had like a real manager ag.

765
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 1: Everything was myself, Like I just did it myself. I

766
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: acted like it was someone else, but it was just me.

767
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: Now in the last year, I'm with like some big

768
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: hitters now, so you know, my my deals are structure

769
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: different and in the pandemic, you know, I signed this

770
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: deal with TOPS and I thought would be cool, you know,

771
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, man, let's do this for fun.

772
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: You know this is ended up being, you know, like

773
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: almost eight figure deal. So you know, it's it's it's

774
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: you know, we're selling twenty dollar cards, you know, and

775
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: I've already sold a quarter million of them. Yeah, Kyan

776
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: was a few cards ago and things like that. But

777
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: I've also with them, I've been making money I've never

778
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:39,720
Speaker 1: in my life ever And I own a nonprofit organization

779
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: for a long time in Seattle, and I've done a

780
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 1: lot of charity and help. But this is the year

781
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: where I think I gave board than ever I've ever

782
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: done in my life. I would fun trying to get

783
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:53,399
Speaker 1: an organization to middlemanship. I literally looked like two ms

784
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: all right, single mom needs diapers, boom, all right, I'm

785
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: gonna send you cash after twenty bucks all right, but

786
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: you need three fifth all right, boom here all right,

787
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,399
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send looks this nurse, all right. I'm gonna

788
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: send Centifi a us this person. I just donated tons

789
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: of ship that I donate to the to the Black

790
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: Lives Matter Ship, to the cause and everything. And I've

791
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 1: just I've done more charity and donate this year than

792
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: ever in my life. That's a beautiful thing, man, you know,

793
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: it's so great to hear you were talking to Ben

794
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,280
Speaker 1: Baller also known and wants to be known as Rebuild

795
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,760
Speaker 1: the Button named Ben Yang in the building. We're gonna

796
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 1: come back. We're gonna do the high five with you

797
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 1: as Cannabis Ark one oh one, Yes, welcome back to

798
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one on one with Blue Joe, Grande, Mark

799
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: and Craigy Pop Brothers at Law. We are here with

800
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,720
Speaker 1: Ben Baller of Icy Fresh, Jewelers and just so much stuff.

801
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 1: But we gotta give thanks to Pitt, Peanut, Jennifer and Elvis.

802
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: Those are the Those are the people of the crew

803
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: who helps only one that talking like this to be

804
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: back to be part of the show and reconnecting. Right

805
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: as he's ripping Elvis, it's like I'm looking at him

806
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: like I can't believe you're bringing us back this. This

807
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: is a couple of times now I remember, I remember

808
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: how to do everything I was. He just hasn't been

809
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 1: here so long. He's had such a crazy July to

810
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,720
Speaker 1: where we've done podcasts every day in the month of July,

811
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: and then he was here just the other day and

812
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: he goes our show is only Tuesdays and Thursday it's

813
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: like we do a show every day. Wait, what do

814
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: you mean? But when I come back, I bring the

815
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: big guests with me. Right now, it's time for the

816
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: Cannabis talk one on one high five with Ben Ball

817
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: before we do the high five with Ben Ball, and

818
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: I want you to give another introduction so we can

819
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: do that nice and clean. Okay, Ben, am I not

820
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: mistaken that? Are you a big fan of the poem

821
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 1: the slam poem that Mr Mark? Have you heard of

822
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: it yet? You know the slam poem that Mark and

823
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 1: Craig Washerman have done? Oh? Oh if you know it?

824
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I don't know, I tosh, It's okay,

825
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 1: he's heard the script. Well, yes, if you wants without

826
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 1: further been this is education that should be sold and

827
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 1: not told by the pop brothers at law without further ado,

828
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: Mr Mark Washerman give him the slam poem. It's called

829
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:16,359
Speaker 1: am I being detained? Or am I free to go?

830
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: By the pop brothers at law? Am I being detained?

831
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: Or am I free to go? This is what to say,

832
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: my lawyer tells me. So, the cops are out there

833
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: doing a job. Sometimes they must contain a mob, a

834
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: thankless job that saves many lives at their home are

835
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: worried children, husbands, and wives. But does that give them

836
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: the right to stomp on my rights. So we are

837
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: here for you, the cannabis community, to fight to let

838
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: you know it's okay to just shut the funk up.

839
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: When cops asked questions, you start with I'm not discussing

840
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 1: my day and with I invoked the Fifth These ain't suggestions,

841
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: these are words to live by, to memorize. See, it's

842
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: not about the size of that cops gun because they

843
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: want you to run so they can pull that macho

844
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: gun and shoot you for fleeing the scene. Some cops

845
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 1: are just plain mean. We must shut it off, shut

846
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,760
Speaker 1: it down, those feelings of anger that instantly come around

847
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:05,800
Speaker 1: when that cop has to show his power and his

848
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: might without cause, without reason, and we know they're not right.

849
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: We must remain calm, keep the devil sleeping on the

850
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,919
Speaker 1: left shoulder. We must be cold, even colder. Ice must

851
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: flow through your veins to shut that heat, the blood

852
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: that rush your brain straight from your feet. When that

853
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 1: cop disrespected you because you wouldn't tell him what that

854
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 1: smell was and he accuses you of a pot d

855
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: u I because he absolutely knows that you're buzzed. But see,

856
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: they can't tell, and they don't know only if you

857
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 1: tell them so whole, Officer, I smoked to joint a

858
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: few hours ago. Officer, here's my medical rector. Officer, I'm

859
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: a marijuana patient. We live in America. Prohibition still exists.

860
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: That cop is gonna do whatever he's gonna do. Fifty

861
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: he arrest. You. Give us a chance to represent you

862
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,959
Speaker 1: with the defense that's blazing. Let us show you in court.

863
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: We're amazing. But we can only do that if you

864
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: listen to our tips. Now, let me see you move

865
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: your lips. You know the drill. When the cops asked questions,

866
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: we say, I'm not discussing my day. Am I being detained?

867
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,720
Speaker 1: Or am I free to go? I invoked the fifth

868
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: and then you shut the fuck up. It's all about

869
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: what you say and what you do. We have given

870
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: you the script. We are telling you what to say,

871
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: we are telling you what to do. We've put your

872
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: hands up in protection mode. But should you take a

873
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: shot to the jaw, we will be here fighting for

874
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: the cannabis community because we are the pot brothers. A

875
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 1: damn you that I'm all about it, man. You know,

876
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 1: I h that's what got me looked onto it when

877
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: I heard him on I'm with the Saving on. I'm

878
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: on the same production company as Mike Ropport, so you

879
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: know when when I heard them on rock Shaws like

880
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 1: yo with these students, Thank you appreciate. All right, now

881
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: it is time for the Cannabis Talk one oh one

882
00:41:56,760 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: high five with Ben Baller Joe taking a Ben. Here

883
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: we go five questions for your brother. Can't wait to

884
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: get your honest answer. How old were you the first

885
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: time you smoked weed? And where did you get it from?

886
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,399
Speaker 1: I was twelve and I got it from some dude

887
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: named Lawrence. Good old Lawrence number neighbor friend, who's Lawrence?

888
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 1: He was an older dude at my school. In fact,

889
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: you know, I think he was in eighth grade, but

890
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: he flunked the grade, so he should have been in

891
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: high school already and getting sixth graders high back in

892
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: the nice question number two, what is your favorite way

893
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: to use cannabis? Um, my favorite way to use cannabis

894
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: is to smoke it in a blunt. But due to

895
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 1: home and things like that, in my hands, it's anything else,

896
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: you know, I do smoke it out of out of

897
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 1: a Cannada's big pen. Nice because I just I do

898
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 1: it out of respect for them, for my family. Understood

899
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: question number three of the High five with Bemballer, craziest

900
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: place you've ever used or smoked cannabis. Damn, he's thinking

901
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: about a million things right now. I know which Flint's

902
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: barbecue and Clinton Michael Jackson's house. I mean, Bro, I can't,

903
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't even imagine, like like you know,

904
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 1: in Asia, there's areas, um, like in Korea. You know,

905
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: if he gets caught with weed, it's just it's you.

906
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: It's you know, getting the twelve year old naked boy

907
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: in your car, you know what I mean, in the

908
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: trunk like it's Jesus. In Korea, you know, they don't

909
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 1: have the jail cells only five feet tall. So I

910
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: can't even stand up in the jail cell, you know

911
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: what I'm like, There's no toilet, there's none of that.

912
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: It's it's really some old other ship. You know. It's

913
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: just really crazy. So with that said, you know, um,

914
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of places. But I have to

915
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: say I was completely against it. When Snoop first went

916
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: to Korea, he had no how expensive. Weed was right.

917
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: So Snoop goes to Korean and he's like, a, bro,

918
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: you need to hook me up blah blah, and his

919
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:17,919
Speaker 1: managers Korean Ted Yeah, and to Ted's like a man,

920
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: I look, bro, you already know what the deal is.

921
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: He's banned in like four countries and just just trying

922
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 1: to make it happen. So I was like, you want

923
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 1: some good ship. He's like, bro, come on, man, you

924
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 1: know what. I'm like, all right, all right, I got

925
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: you man, I'm gonna figure it out. And he goes, bro,

926
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: they have an ounce there, like but I'm gonna be

927
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,760
Speaker 1: real with you. It's like, you know, dollars, oh my god.

928
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 1: But if you want to just buy by the Graham,

929
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 1: you know, it's you know, maybe like Graham. You know,

930
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: it's like it's it's so he's just like trying to

931
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: figure it out. He goes through like the entire ounds,

932
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: you know, in less than a day, and he's like,

933
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 1: fuck this, I'm gonna start doing features, Like do you

934
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 1: know how much a Snoop feature is? Like if you

935
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: still want how to cash to pay it? He was

936
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: gonna do a feature anyways. Bottom line is I told

937
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 1: him exactly where to stay with hotel, the stand where

938
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: we can smoke, and certain things, and and he was

939
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 1: able to to maneuver through that. The craziest place I

940
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: smoked weed was I brought Justin Bieber to carea for

941
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: the first time six years ago. It's never been a

942
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: career before he started going to country, has never been

943
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: to And he starts getting kicked out of countries because

944
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: he's literally running to a jet to get out of

945
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: the country because they find out that weed and they're

946
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 1: trying and arrest him. Shut out. Yeah, and Um tells me,

947
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 1: don't worry about Everything's all good. I sneak half an

948
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 1: ounce of my pants in Korea. Dumbest fucking thing I've

949
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: done in my entire life. I'm worn like, this is

950
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: so stupid, so I bring it. He starts smoking in

951
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: my room, Like no, no, no, broth, I'm not staying

952
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: at the hotel where you smoke. He's like, oh, don't

953
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 1: weary back boom. I'm just irritated. He goes, hey, let's

954
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: go to the mall. Let's go hang out, showing me

955
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: some stormy some fly shit in Korea. So we get

956
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:57,280
Speaker 1: in the car, we start smoking. I'm not even fucking

957
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: paying attention. Okay, we're in a seven car convoy, all

958
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 1: kinds of craziness, right security everything, I know, his entire

959
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: team bes my boy, We're in a fucking car driven

960
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: by the police in Korea smoking and I hear that

961
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: the thing come down, and I hear the dude talking

962
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: and he has a policewalkie talkie. I don't speak Korean fluently.

963
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 1: I understand everything I need to understand. And at that

964
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 1: point I knew we were going to jail. I was

965
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: that was a rapid was done. I was like, holy ship,

966
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: this is unbelievable. It was just a fucking We made

967
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 1: TMZ that week and everything, and it was just crazy

968
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 1: that we were damn near smoking in the police car

969
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: and Korea, of of the most strictest places, has been

970
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: to five strictest places in the world of smoke. With me,

971
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: I was just like, Yo, it is unbelieable, Like it

972
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: sucked up our relationship to our friendship because it was

973
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: such a situation that had to be the craziest place

974
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:57,320
Speaker 1: I could think of. There's other places I can think that.

975
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 1: All right, we are here with Ben bare It is

976
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: question number four of the High five Man What is

977
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 1: your go to munchies when you get high? Oh Man,

978
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: any Japanese snack man, the green tea or strawberry kit cats.

979
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 1: There's these butterfiscuits that I get from Japan. Everything's all

980
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,439
Speaker 1: Japanese snacks. Man. It's just you know, if I don't

981
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: have Japanese snacks, the you know what fun it, I'll

982
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: just go to some Cheetos and I go to like,

983
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: you know, um, some pound cake. Ship. I ain't into

984
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: all of the fancy ship, you know what I'm saying,

985
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: But but I love my Japanese snacks. Man. Remember d

986
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: J Cos bringing me a bunch of Japanese snacks. Shout

987
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: out to Cos over there. Okay, Question number five, if

988
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: you could smoke with anybody senior bandballer, dead or alive,

989
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: who would it be? Oh Man, ship, bro it's not

990
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: even a question, bro, be fucking Bruce Lee. Man, how

991
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: do you Bruce Bob Marley? You know what I'm saying.

992
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it's it's it's Bob Marley second,

993
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: and make Barack Obama third. And that's about it. That's

994
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: but but I want to get into detail that with

995
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: Bruce Lee. And I'm sure you've watched the movies, but

996
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of it. Man. I know you've

997
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: watched it man, one, two, probably three and four. Are

998
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: you hit to the movie it? Man? I p right,

999
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: of course, yeah, so that that that it? Man? If

1000
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 1: you guys don't know that was Bruce Lee is one

1001
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 1: of his senses. So why Bruce Lee? Though? I think

1002
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:29,720
Speaker 1: one growing up as an Asian American in the world

1003
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 1: and there was nobody of representation but him, and he

1004
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: happened to be the baddest motherfucker that ever lived, you

1005
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like, and he was cool with

1006
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:39,399
Speaker 1: the brothers, he was cool with the blacks, he was cool,

1007
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: cool with everyone. He everyone kind of fun with him.

1008
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: You know. It wasn't just like Asians. And he was

1009
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: just you know you even watching the documentary Be Like Water,

1010
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: and just his philosophy on life and just how he

1011
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: felt and what he did and what what what barriers

1012
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: he had to break down in Hollywood and in the world,

1013
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 1: and he just it just seems so so pure, you know,

1014
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: and so real. And I think, like, you know, um sparking,

1015
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: you know, a nice you know, some o g kush

1016
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: with him, man, bro, I couldn't imagine what kind of

1017
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: ship he might be spending after that, you know for sure.

1018
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 1: You know what, It's funny, Ben, You're such a great storyteller.

1019
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,839
Speaker 1: You're such a pleasure to have on the podcast with us.

1020
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: And they hear you say Bruce Lee, we literally all

1021
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: lost it out here. I mean, Craig's a black bell

1022
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,359
Speaker 1: or whatever belt grew up with his kids like he's

1023
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: got and now that it makes you think, going, I

1024
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: love what I hear names because when I hear an

1025
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:31,919
Speaker 1: obscure name that I don't know, I'm like, I don't

1026
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 1: know who that is, but I'm sure that person likes him.

1027
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: You said Bruce Lee, it makes you go, that would

1028
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: be a good one. Man. Anything else you want to

1029
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 1: shout out there? I mentioned you're a good talker. You

1030
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 1: got a podcast? Are you still doing it? I have

1031
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 1: a podcast I do every every two times a week.

1032
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: We dropped every Monday and every Thursday. It is called

1033
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: Behind the Baller. We are a top forty char chart

1034
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 1: you know topping to podcast, and you know we crushed it.

1035
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 1: I have my hundred episode dropping on Monday, but I

1036
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 1: have an episode dropping the mall actually, man, But yeah,

1037
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: we love to be a part of your show. Man.

1038
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: If if that if you could work out some space

1039
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: for these few Mexicans and Jews over here, we we

1040
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: kind of join you. Hey, man, you know half my

1041
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:15,360
Speaker 1: family's Jewish. You see the star of David on me,

1042
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 1: remember the tribe? Well, I mean to start Davids tatted

1043
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: on me. Man, Yeah, beautiful man, I definitely do a

1044
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 1: man just so you guys know. Man, you know, my

1045
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,720
Speaker 1: first language was not English. It wasn't creating it with Spanish,

1046
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 1: you know, so um, and then you know, m my

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Speaker 1: my uh, and then my second language is created in

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Speaker 1: an English third and then uh, you know pretty much

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Speaker 1: it's sad. You know, I only kind of kept the

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Speaker 1: slang in the bad words of Spanish and Korean. But

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Speaker 1: you know, but it was just you know, I grew

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Speaker 1: up on blacks and Jews all my life. And um,

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Speaker 1: I would love to have you guys on the show.

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Speaker 1: I've had some amazing guests on my show, you know. Um,

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Speaker 1: I work with George George Lopez really heavily. You don't

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Speaker 1: know if you saw his new Netflix awesome, Awesome. I'm

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Speaker 1: in the beginning of the show on You're Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: introduced him on that He's brought me I think I

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Speaker 1: choose him with three different specials now to HBO on

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Speaker 1: this Netflix one. He just always flies me out. I

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Speaker 1: don't don't, don't ask me why. I don't know. But

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Speaker 1: he's always cool. He has a great weed party every

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Speaker 1: year at his house and and um, I'm just you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm down with anything. Bro. You know, I've had a

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Speaker 1: lot of amazing guests on my show, and uh, I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to have you guys on to inform people

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Speaker 1: because I had, um not Mr Tickett what's his name?

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Speaker 1: The Mr che Checkpoint, Checkpoint amazing Ye, good friends of

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Speaker 1: art time. He's a very nice guys, a little too nice.

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Speaker 1: I think Mark is a little more like like me,

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Speaker 1: like listen, fuck you dumb buck. I don't mean your

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Speaker 1: dumb buck, but I can tell you a dumb buck

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Speaker 1: because you don't listen. Shut the bunk up. I need

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Speaker 1: you to tell my listeners and my fans. My father

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Speaker 1: was like, bro, shut the bunk up when you get

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Speaker 1: pulled over right, just you know, I think I think

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Speaker 1: my my my fan base could definitely use the Pop

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Speaker 1: Brothers for sure. You got it, you got it. Well,

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Speaker 1: we want to thank you for joining the show Man

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Speaker 1: Beam Faller It's always a pleasure. Man. We love you.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you check out his podcasts and follow him online.

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